It’s a good day for the 2nd Amendment and freedom-minded Americans. Not so much for America-hating liberals. The Supreme Court has struck down New York’s concealed carry law that made people show a special need to exercise their rights. The cool thing is, this ruling means California and other liberal sates will now have to issue concealed carry permits as well.
Fox News has the good news:
The Supreme Court Thursday ruled 6-3 that New York’s regulations that made it difficult to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun were unconstitutionally restrictive, and that it should be easier to obtain such a license.
The existing standard required an applicant to show “proper cause” for seeking a license, and allowed New York officials to exercise discretion in determining whether a person has shown a good enough reason for needing to carry a firearm. Stating that one wished to protect themselves or their property was not enough.
The case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, was the first major gun rights case before the Supreme Court in more than a decade. In the majority opinion, Thomas referenced 2010’s McDonald v. City of Chicago and 2008’s D.C. v. Heller in his reasoning for Thursday’s ruling.
“In this case, petitioners and respondents agree that ordinary, law-abiding citizens have a similar right to carry handguns publicly for their self-defense. We too agree, and now hold, consistent with Heller and McDonald, that the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home. Because the State of New York issues public-carry licenses only when an applicant demonstrates a special need for self-defense, we conclude that the State’s licensing regime violates the Constitution,” wrote Clarence Thomas in the majority decision.
The 6 conservative Justices who ruled against New York pointed out that no other Constitutionally protected right requires a person to demonstrate a need before they are allowed to exercise it. As in, you don’t have to prove your worth before you speak your mind or practice your religion. It’s called the Bill of Rights not the Bill of Needs.
The majority also ruled that the “bear” in “keep and bear arms” means that people have not only a right to own firearms but also to carry them for self-defense. This is huge because liberals have severely restricted the bearing of arms with their unconstitutional gun control laws. They are all now null and void.
In the dissenting opinion, the 3 liberals Justices tried to argue that because criminals do illegal things with guns, law-abiding people’s right to carry them should be restricted.
“Many States have tried to address some of the dangers of gun violence just described by passing laws that limit, in various ways, who may purchase, carry, or use firearms of different kinds. The Court today severely burdens States’ efforts to do so,” wrote Justice Stephen Breyer.
New York was stopping law-abiding people from carrying guns and the court has put an end to that. Nothing about this ruling lets convicted felons obtain concealed carry permits.
Also in the dissenting opinion, the liberal Justices were like “what about that mass shooting in Buffalo” to which Justice Samual Alito pointed out happened in New York under the law they just struck down.
Basically what the liberal Justices are trying to say is they are not serious judges who take into consideration the Constitution when deciding Constitutional cases.
Like I said, this a great day for the 2nd Amendment and it’s only going to get better because you know a full-scale liberal freak-out is coming.
